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Brandee Younger w/ New Century Chamber Orchestra (On Demand)
Artist Fund: http://www.sfjazz.org/artistfund
Please support the artists directly via the Artist FundFor her second season as a Resident Artistic Director, Brandee Younger presents an exciting new set of compositions accompanied by the 19-piece New Century Chamber Orchestra.
Carrying on and ex...
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Kasey Knudsen & Friends: Happy Birthday Shirley Scott!
Philadelphia-born Shirley Scott was raised in a musical household, playing piano and trumpet before switching to Hammond organ in the 1950s during the rise of the instrument’s popularity. Blending the sounds of bebop with gospel and soul, Scott made her earliest recordings with saxophone legend E...
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Drop the Needle w/ Don Was
This time on “Drop the Needle,” Preservation Hall Jazz Band bassist, tubist, and Creative Director Ben Jaffe dives deep into his formative influences and shares his memories and emotions about a cross-section of adventurous jazz and a New Orleans pop classic.
“The past and promise of American mu...
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Four for Diz: Jon Faddis on Dizzy Gillespie
Trumpeter Jon Faddis sits down with SFJAZZ Executive Artistic Director Terence Blanchard to reminisce about his personal friend and mentor Dizzy Gillespie. Faddis shares memories about meeting his hero at the age of 12, and how this chance encounter eventually led to him playing with Dizzy. He al...
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Bobby Hutcherson
In honor of Bobby Hutcherson's birthday today!
SFJAZZ presents another Jazz Minute – a brief look at important figures, movements, and moments in jazz history and the present day, in both the San Francisco Bay Area and aroun...
